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Holy smokes! Candy got expensive AF. (TikTok screencap)

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[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 147 points 3 weeks ago

And it tastes worse than ever.

[-] allidoislietomyself@lemmy.world 85 points 3 weeks ago

All that delicious palm oil

[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 weeks ago
[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

Mmmnnn Hershy's Vomit bars

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[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 80 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

At this point is cheaper to be the house with full candy bars /s

Looking at the prices of Snickers from CandyDirect.com you can get 15.8 lbs of fun sized (about 400+ pieces if my math is right with each bar at 17 grams) for $186. $0.46 each. Fuck what a scam.

Full bars are fucking $2.41 each in bulk. WTF

Also, some of these bags are huge. 350, 250, etc. pieces for $25, so 7¢ each. The top row center bags are 15¢ per piece. If you're not expecting a constant steam of kids, one of these might be all you need.

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 86 points 3 weeks ago

At this point is cheaper to be the house with full candy bars

Okay, complete tangent, but...

When my kid was still Trick-or-Treating age, I was walking around town with him and as it was getting a bit late, we came upon a house with a man sitting out front with a half-full box of full-size candy bars. He gave my kid one, and my kid asked if he could have another. Before I could scold him, the man said "Sure!" and gave him another, then followed up with "You can have the whole box, if you want..."

My kid was obviously ecstatic, and after a minute of chatting with him, it came out that his wife had told him he had to stay out there til they were all gone, and he wanted to go inside and watch whatever game was on.

So that's how my kid ended up having the best Halloween of his life.

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 57 points 3 weeks ago

Most wholesome diabetes origin story.

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[-] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 weeks ago

Similarly, my first Halloween at a new neighborhood. I go all out. I aspired to be the house my buddies and I would have talked about when we were kids. Decorations, sound effects, light show, etc… I run AV for a living, so it was all pretty basic for me. But with just some basic stuff, I had it looking really nice. This was my candy tray:

I had two trick-or-treaters. Two. Turns out, there just weren’t that many kids in my new neighborhood. That second kid got the entire tray.

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[-] bigbabybilly@lemmy.world 70 points 3 weeks ago

Prices are fine in Canada. Happy Halloween, ‘Murica.

[-] Routhinator@startrek.website 52 points 3 weeks ago

I mean.. Those look like normal Canadian prices.

However, contextually, that stuff in Canada is actually chocolate and many US versions have little to no cocoa, and oils instead of milk ingredients. So its a rip off because its not even chocolate.

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[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 56 points 3 weeks ago

Halloween just promotes socialism for children. If they want candy, get a job in the mine.

[-] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

As a kid I yearned for the mines

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[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 53 points 3 weeks ago

I always take call on Halloween so my coworkers who have kids can go out and have fun with their family... This bums me out on their behalf.

Are prices at places like Costco still decent? Or those restaurant supply type stores? Or some mythical product that isn't candy and won't be soul-crushing to a kid expecting candy?

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago

"Heres a baggie with a toothbrush, a travel size toothpastea box of raisins, 50 pennies, and an apple".

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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 43 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I get about 50 kids in average every year.

So no matter the price (unless it gets any higher), I'll spend a couple hundred on candies. I'm not wealthy but I can afford it once a year .... I actually prefer spending more on this holiday than for Christmas.

Plus I loved this holiday when I was a kid. What other time or place do you have an opportunity to see a strangers house and get candy in a safe and public holiday? So I've made it a rule in my life that on Halloween when a kid comes to my door, they're getting a few handfuls of candy. I also don't care of the kids age ... they could be two or twenty (as long as they're polite and non aggressive) they're getting candy.

I once had a group of college kids who were Indian nationality who were just out having fun with some face paint and daring each other to visit houses .... I gave them a bunch of candy, told them which houses to go to and made them laugh.

[-] sexy_peach@feddit.org 43 points 3 weeks ago

A couple hundred on candies 😳 The US are crazy

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 27 points 3 weeks ago

Spending money on stuff is the essence of American existence. When you stop doing it, America will die.

[-] mapleseedfall@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

How nice. Better get to it then

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[-] gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world 38 points 3 weeks ago

At that price, I think I'll just hand out dollar bills. Kids love money, right?

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[-] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 37 points 3 weeks ago

I'm a house that buys Full size Candy bars. We average 50 kids in our neighborhood, so generally 1 fundraiser box covers us.

I still have my 2024 screen shots and as you can see the price went up 31% I know it's not an exact comparison, but the box I gave away last year appears to have been discontinued. On lower count packs its gone up nearly 45%.

I was planning on doing Roasted Chestnuts and Apple cider for parents as a fun gag, but now I'm considering doing that exclusively.

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[-] null@lemmy.nullspace.lol 33 points 3 weeks ago

Get ready to see lots of posts marveling at how expensive common things are getting in the US

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[-] 13igTyme@piefed.social 27 points 3 weeks ago

My wife bought rice krispie treats for super cheap, dumdums, some lesser known candy, little Halloween toys and stickers, and made goodie bags.

If you avoid the mainstream big name candy, it's not so bad.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago

What are you, some kind of socialist? But seriously, people always complain about how things are so expensive but keep buying the same overpriced trash.

[-] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 3 weeks ago

That overprized trash gets flung into everyone's faces with ads constantly and is placed at eye level in optimal shelf locations so you see it first and can grab it the easiest. It's placed at the counters when you have to wait (in overpriced small / singular packages), and if the advertising machine detects you might be perceptible to being convinced into buying it (e.g. through analysis of your previous purchases collected by the payback program or store itself together with your social media posts showing you're sad or depressed) you'll receive tailored ads at the right moment via Smartphone, websites, Music streaming service and (soon) car infotainment + "smart" camera-enabled digital ad screens in public.

Don't blame people for being manipulated by the manipulation machine, none of us is safe against it. Our resources for full awareness are sucked dry and monetized until we're tired and defenseless; and at that point you can't blame anyone who just wants to buy something that makes them a littlr bit more happy and less tired. Of course everyone ultimately has free will, but in the dystopia we live in that free will requires phenomenal energy to truly act on.

Smash the system, not everyone else's desire to feel happy. 🙂

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[-] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 26 points 3 weeks ago

Odd that products made and packaged in the US, from government subsidized corn syrup, and not the most affected by tarrifs, still jump in price. Maybe inflation will be the scariest thing this Halloween

[-] JollyBrancher@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

A majority of Hershey products have been made in Mexico for some time! It was "somehow" cheaper - possibly in part to tricklin' down trade agreements - to ship the ingredients there and then send the finished product back. As much a "fun" fact as the "fun-sized" candy. Even the JustBorne/The Peeps peoples of Pennsylvania manufacture a bunch in Canada.

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[-] Skunk@jlai.lu 24 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, so that’s what it looks like inside a murican supermarket. That’s a metric shit ton of plastics from an UE pov.

I’ve never seen bags like that, some seems dumb with the numbers, 195 or 310 but why not plain and round 200?

[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I guess you’ve never seen the Asian fascination with putting everything in individual plastic wrappers. Definitely not just an “American” thing.

If you’re going to jump on the America Bad train, at least put some fucking effort into it. There’s plenty of non-hypocritical stuff to make fun of.

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[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

I live in the EU and i've seen bags like that

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[-] Duckingold@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

Definitely a US grocery store.

195 or 310 is piece count. The bags are usually sold by rounded weight (3 or 5lbs).

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[-] VampirePenguin@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago

Tricks it is, then.

[-] Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 weeks ago

Who else handing out cups of water this year??

[-] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 18 points 3 weeks ago

Don't let Nestlé know you have water

[-] Dhar@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] sturlabragason@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

laughs in danish

To clarify; danish candy prices are fucking ridonkoulus.

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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 weeks ago

I just bought 40 lbs (big neighborhood) at US$4.44 a lb for snack-size name-brand 'chocolate' at Costco

Nominal price for the past four years has been $5 a lb here. Given that's kirkland's packaging with mars/hersheys candy in it.

Looks like my local grocer is $24.99 for the 3.4lb bag which is over US$7 a lb so ... yikes.

[-] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 16 points 3 weeks ago

What the hell is up with these prices?

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago

it's what happens when you elect economic geniuses

[-] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago

It's just your typical Trump economy.

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[-] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

We don't have enough kids in my neighborhood to justify buying candy

[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Neither do we, but I still buy it, pretend we do, then eat the bag over the night!

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